Editor's note: A well-knit society is built upon merger of socioeconomics interests and cooperation. The effort to establish a parallel society based on outmoded social codes by Muslims or anyone else in Europe is therefore antisocial and should be opposed. Any defects in European laws or social mores can be dealt with in the public forum. As we have stated on this website previously, Europe does not need another dogma-based religion.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, (UPI) - Islamic activists in Europe have taken a leaf out of the old Communist guidebook for the "long march through the institutions." In Antwerp, for example, the City Council has been infiltrated by Islamist fundamentalists - Belgian citizens, of course - who keep pushing the envelope with impunity.
From the British city of Leeds to Livorno in Italy and from Luxembourg to Ljubljana in Slovenia, multiculturalism is pretty much a bust. Quicksand is the only common ground between Western values and militant Muslim fundamentalism. But some Islamist extremists have found willing partners among leftist radicals who never got over the end of the Cold War -- and jump at any opportunity to rumble against whatever government is in power.
In Germany, the weekly Der Spiegel documented case after case of Muslims, and local German benefactors or sympathizers, busy paving the way for a Muslim "parallel" society. A Moroccan-born, 26-year-old German who had been subjected to her husband's "corporal punishment" and was denied grounds for divorce triggered a nationwide cry of outrage.
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